BioShock PC Demo Coming Monday August 20th

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• it would work, it's worth a shot : skankcore
• i am gonna give it a go on the ol 6800, hah. : mindshot
• It better, that's what I got. AMD 3500+, 2gb RAM, and an x800. I'm crossing my fingers. : MaxPete82
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  x800 doesn't have Shader Model 3.0, so it very well may not because its required. : rastafar1an
  • That's what I was afraid of. Damnit, I didn't see that in the recommended specs. : MaxPete82
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    Where did you hear that it requires SM3.0? I have only seen the requirements mention DirectX 9.0c. Howe... : treefingers1
    • So what's the deal with the game? Does it work on SM2 hardware? The lack of any mention at all of Shader ... : AgentPothead

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  I know I'm gonna have problems finding the game in stores. Where I live, the entire tri-town area only g... : Jobos
  • you don't live near a best buy, circuit city, wal-mart, target, etc? : kevp
  • steam? : prancing_jackanapes

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  thanks for the tip. poor mods :( : pyide
  • I already knew that Jack Sparrow launched himself from one ship to another using a cannon :( : tomservo
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  What spoilers? That you will become a Little Sister at the end? : High-g
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    Bah, why did you tell them?! Now it's spoiled :[ : rosone
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      I hope what he said isn't true. Fucking spoilers. : qtseng
      • No, it's true, Dr. Tenenbaum performs a sex change operation on you after you decide to stay in teh Raptu... : High-g
      • The one I saw had what appeared to be a glaring obvious error, based on the info that's already out there... : dirge23
• What's up with that? Jeez. : Sylvanus
• I noticed someone was doing that earlier as well, but the mods seemed to clean it up pretty quick. : jonin
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  It turns out the whole ordeal was JUST A DREAM. You wake up and look in the mirror and you're a BIG DADDY : ArB
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    Why did you have to post this here and most importantly why was I so fucking stupid to click on the first... : Cashh
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      It was a joke post -- not actual spoilers. : walker270
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        Thanks! I clicked as well and was a bit pissed off, decided not to rant here though as I was stupid enoug... : jbury
        • I thought it would be funny, but it ended up hurting the people I care about most. I'm sorry. : ArB

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• yeah wtf? You can get stalker to work with 2x aa, I forget how, but it's in the forums. Hopefully ... : pzilla
• it's a hardware limitation due to the use of a certain type of lighting not being able to be used with an... : painangel
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  no aa = no buy you know games look better with AA that's why you resize screenshots to make them look ... : Shai-Tan
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    you won't buy a game if you can't use aa? that seems rather silly to me. oblivion was awesome. if all you... : nandu666
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      I used to feel this way about AA, but then Doom 3 and Oblivion made me realize it's not that important wi... : dirge23
      • I try to run all my games with AA on - it also makes a lot of difference in games I can't run at full res... : yuried
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        I don't really get why AA is so important too. I mean, a higher resolution with no AA is better looking t... : shirif
        • i would totally beg to differ. I have a 23 inch monitor and those jaggies are pretty pronounced even at ... : pzilla
  • wow, you're really 1337, can I kiss your toes, plz ? : OrkO
• What if you force AA on through your video card panel? : skankcore

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  Err, I posted a link but it got nuked. Is there something against Torrents at the Shack? You'd think it... : Jobos
  • If the link was to a site that hosts pirated software, it would've gotten nuked, regardless of whether th... : Arcanum
• http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=14966769#itemanchor_14966769 Fileplanet always do this when they h... : Beady

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  um how is a 7900GTX next to a 7800GS? : skinlab133
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    I think 7900GTX is the fastest 7xxx sinlge-GPU card that was ever released... : High-g
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      What about the 7950? : skankcore
      • Never mind, 'single gpu-based'. Yeah, you got it. : skankcore
  • The 7800GS was the AGP one, right? : Schnapple

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• 7PM CST. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ : Schnapple
• 7PM EST, according to the story. : dirge23

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• Seems like the demo already has the splash image that appears when you execute the editor. So at least, i... : Turin Turambar

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• No : High-g

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• You mean Windows XP Service Pack 2? Yes, you really need it, if for no other reason than security fixes.... : Arcanum
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  It doesn't slow down anything :\ Something must be wonky with your PC : aggressor
  • Every machine Ive installed SP2 on has actually had some noticable slowdown in the amount of time it take... : Beady
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  Wow, some people just amaze me. Why in the hell would you ever run XP without Sp2. That just blows my m... : mrwolf710
  • I work for an MS flight sim addon developer and we're always getting people on our forum saying they don'... : TabsAZ
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    I know a few people who dont run it because they're running XP with a pirated key that was obliterated wi... : jake2000
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      Yeah, I've seen quite a bit of this, they really cut out a shipload of keys with sp2. : devi| dog
      • This is why you don't right click and take the first suggested word kids. : devi| dog
      • They all walked the plank and were left stranded in the genuine isles : jigstah
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      • as long as you're using the serial key from a legit copy it should be all you need, windows update should... : painangel
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    I can tell you EXACTLY why you'd not want SP2, piracy. The CD key / serial auth changed with SP2 as well... : abrasion
    • Getting around WGA is pretty easy these days. : blackscythe125
  • I didn't have it installed for a while because I was lazy and didn't feel I had a reason to install it. I... : jonas54
• You think your PC can handle this game if SP2 is a performance issue?? : TrptJim
• LOL, right : kevp

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  is this a copy of the preload? or something far more precious..... : smacknca
  • It's supposed to be an unencrypted PC demo, I don't know anything else since I don't have it fully downlo... : High-g
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    something awful goons found the demo on fileplanet, downloaded it and put it out, so yeah it's unofficial... : thebigbeefsandwich
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      bless those wonderful goons. if i can get it d/l'd ill post a real mirror :D : smacknca
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        yeesh the speeds im seeing on this torrent may as well wait for tomorrow evening, it probably still would... : smacknca
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          Well, the speeds aren't that bad once you'll let it run for a couple of hours... I already got a 40% and ... : High-g
          • yea by then it will be too late and I'll have to go to work in the morning. basically by the time I get ... : smacknca
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    Or 1.8GB of gay porn? : nudel
    • Wait, BioShock isn't gay porn? : Schnapple
• getting 100KB/s now : nacatamale
• I view this as doing Fileshack a favor. I guess they must agree or else this comment would be nuked : Schnapple
• Haha, I wish I had seen this last night. I just started it, and utorrent's already seeing over 10,000 peo... : Noobler
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  Anyone able to confirm it actually is a working demo? : valael
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    Guess it doesn't matter, the site is timing out. For what it's worth, if you're a member of Something Aw... : valael
    • Where do you think I got it from? :-P : High-g
  • yes, yes it is, I downloaded it completely : High-g
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  Anyone else have the audio cut out completely immediately after the plane crash and the Bioshock logo ani... : monofurioso
  • No sound problems with my old Audigy2 card and the latest official Creative Vista drivers... Try updating... : High-g
  • i have the same problem on my laptop : bradsh
• Great, securom error (5024). Somehow I doubt it will be different with the "officially " released demo or... : mulu
• Hello fellow boilermaker : blackscythe125

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• hey does FSAA work with the 8800gtx? : gyokuro
• What RAM and OS do you have? : Schnapple

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• explain. : Hoax

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• http://www.tweakguides.com/NVFORCE_3.html : High-g
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  Weird for you to have that problem with new hardware? Vista booted fine with default drivers on my NForce... : nudel
  • Same here and Bioshock runs great on the non-updated drivers from Nvidia. : devi| dog
• What exactly is your system doing? I just built a new system, attempted to install vista, it installed fu... : USteppin
• This is the only issue I have with Vista. I'm using Vista64bit, and I can not install video drivers from ... : kevp

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  it's the first level area. : dahanese
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    Don't hate me for playing the demo early, ok? : rosewood
    • I hate you. (56%) : Beady

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• ... do they have one ?? : lord cecil
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  WTF. Are you serious? X-COM project!?!? You cock-warbler, tell us what the fuck is going on! : Rice-Rocketeer
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    Irrational + X-COM, OMG, OMG, OMG. OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG. OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG. OMG, OMG, ... : esecasco
    • /agree I just wet myself. : aznboysix
• http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/45797 : Chris Remo
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  Sounds like they are going to annouce it this week in Germany. : baron calamity
  • guess a link would be helpful. http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/index.jsp?epi-content=GENE... : baron calamity

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  Introducing multiplayer would've inevitably had several effects: 1) Reduction of resources available fo : Arcanum
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    I wouldn't mind a coop like they had in SS2. The game, except for AI, basically ignored the other player... : mobab
    • I really couldn't care less about a DM in this game, pointless. Like the MP mode of DeusEx. : tcs
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    Now I don't disagree that the game should not have MP, but with that logic no game would have both MP and... : lord cecil
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      That's not exactly how I intended it. It's more a matter of if you've made the decision to focus heavily... : Arcanum
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        Warcraft 3 : walker270
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          Which was released five years ago, and was designed with both in mind from the outset. And assuming Bliz... : Arcanum
          • Warcraft 3 wasn't started just after Warcraft 2. At best it was started sometime after Starcraft, which ... : walker270
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    The Darkness does have a tacked on MP thing, it doesn't seem to have hurt the awesome SP game, but the MP... : OrkO
    • I'd argue that the SP game in The Darkness does have some rough spots. In particular, the Darklings are ... : Arcanum
• They shoulda got FASA to do the multiplayer part and forget Shadowrun, then everyone would be happy! : thaperfectdrug
• I am disappointed that you found this game to be disappointing because it is missing something that has a... : not work safe
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  I like that, for once, an FPS game isn't focused on MP at all, or even a little bit. But rather existing ... : tomservo
  • Last one I can think of that did this was HL2. And it was good. : dirge23
• And if they put a simple deathmatch MP into it, people would complain that "it's just MP, not even CTF!" ... : SilverSnake
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  I don't think it's any coincidence that some of my favorite FPS games of recent memory--Half-Life 2, Half... : Chris Remo
  • I think it just boils down to the replayability factor. People are just used to playing the SP campaign i... : MaxPete82
  • Here's a question - would the original Half-Life had been so popular without a (rudimentary) MP mode? I k... : Schnapple
• why does every game have to have multiplayer? It's like people have come to expect this or some shit, hon... : VegasX

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  My first modem was 1200baud. : dirge23
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    My first modem was 300 baud. : lepke
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      Morse code and a keyed mic : freqq28
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        shouting really loud : OrkO
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          Smoke signals : Function Pointer
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            grunts : moshman
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              Cum : [7]kami
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                individual sperm cells : aeg1x
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                  we are all made of stars : SlamDunk
                  • MAH FAIRST CONNACTION WAS A 20 TRILLION MEGABITS CONNACTION LOLS! : aaarrrgh
• punch cards and post offfices : Liquid
• I remember trading 5 1/4 discs with a friend of mine several years ago. 1.8 GB really should be a demo th... : Lukiopimp
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  The full Doom game was only 4 floppies. There is no way the first episode was 3MB. : mrwolf710
  • IIRC, the original DOOM shareware did indeed require two floppies. Not to take anything away from the gam... : Schnapple

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  Well put. Doom 3 was great if you imagined playing the original Doom with updated graphics. : Pneum0
  • When Doom 3 came out, a few guys I knew insisted that we sat on Ventrilo while we played. I was against ... : valael
• Yeah, it's good advice... Even moreso because spoilers will probably make you groan and roll your eyes... : walker270
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  What spoilers could there have been for Doom3? The only "surprises" in that game was the retarded tele... : Beady
  • the flashlight : jodiuh
  • There were a few, like the first part where the scientist that trapped satan in hell got possessed and tu... : Pneum0

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  Subscribers only. Lol! : hardfl1p
  • yeah, what a crock! : geneshifter
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  Might have something to do with the new drivers? : Chris Faylor
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    Have you seen anything describing differences between the DX10 and DX9.0c versions of the game? : Sylvanus
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      The differences between DX10 and DX9 in Bioshock? "PCGH: Windows Vista comes with the new DiectX 10 API.... : Autocrawler
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        *sigh* I'm going to have to kick my Vista install into satisfactory functionality tonight, aren't I? : Arcanum
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          Looks like I'll be upgrading to is as well. :/ : Sylvanus
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            Do what I did, set up a dual boot, and use Vista just for these DX10 games until XP gets unofficial DX10 ... : Matt Burris
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              That's what I have, I just haven't touched my Vista partition since shortly after I installed it. I got ... : Arcanum
              • I'm in the exact same boat. I don't have the patience to put up with the abysmal GUI that is Vista. I j... : Matt Burris
            • That's never going to happen from what I've read. They might be able to make "DX10" wrappers which provid... : nudel
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        Does the XBox version have all those fancy DX10 effects? If so, I think most PC owners are going to feel... : treefingers1
        • It doesn't as far as I can tell from the demo. : nudel
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  Personally I've avoided reading any reviews or viewing any recently released screenshots. I want everythi... : headbone
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    I wish I had the fortitude for this. But I couldn't resist the demo. : dirge23
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      well the demo is supposedly different from the game : Unleashed
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        It is identical other than the placement of the second plasmid and maybe a weapon. Nothing regarding sto... : Chris Remo
        • YARG DEMO SPOILER!!!!1 lol : Vangoghs Ear
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  the "pre-load" and "reserve" is bullshit IMO. You have to leave that memory sucking proprietary download ... : cell9song
  • Yeah. Mine is using a whopping 4MB of RAM while downloading the demo! Also, it doesn't have spyware, an... : monofurioso
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    I've never installed their download manager and I grab stuff off FP all the time. When it comes up and... : MR 9000
    • for me, it's because of stuff like this: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/23660 : MikkleThePickle

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  We're going to break the intarwebs. : ArbyBean
  • Thousands of us are already breaking it. 50mins to go... : SlamDunk

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  Ties out for me :( Is it a torrent? : Angry_Badger
  • Works for me, but it's slow, ~20K/s. I might as well wait for it to hit Fileshack. : Arcanum
  • didn't work in firefox, in IExplorer it is downloading a 1.84 gig file right now... can it be? : AbortedFetusChristi
• I got it last night no problem. Had roughly 100kbps : Archangel2007

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• Good question. You can get UE3 with Roboblitz so I don't see why they couldn't include it. : PSYCHON
• If you mean UnrealEd 4 -- I'd say it's highly probable, since even RobotBlitz already includes it. : zehh

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  I don't think that any kind of "accelerators" (or programs which open multiple download connections to sa... : High-g
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    The above article says they work for Mercury users. : byorn
    • Oh... sorrry, I missed that. Yea, you can try that, or try the "DownThemAll" extension if you use FireFox... : High-g
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  FreeDownloadManager is my DLM of preference these days. : Fail_Safe
  • I use this one as well. It's pretty clean and doesn't have a large footprint. : Pettytheft
  • Me too, its got all the features. : pieman
  • ^^^ All that's needed, and it's free. : zehh
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  DownThemAll Firefox plugin. : Matt Burris
  • Another vote for DownThemAll. I like it. : T1nu5

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  Some people (like me) want to give the demo a try just to see how well it'll run on their PC. Helps in d... : Zips
  • ^^^ got it preloaded on steam, but gonna wait for demo : deviantpaul
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    Well, if only for that purpose ;) The beauty of consoles is that you can skip this step altogether :) : DRFUCKYOUALL
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      Not really... I have a 360 and a high-end PC, but I'm still doing exactly as I described. Probably going... : Zips
      • Is it still only 39.99 at circuit city? : geneshifter
• Oh boy! How can you know it's a great game if you don't try it?! Better to release a demo, than forci... : cosmicc

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  I was extremely impressed by the visuals/sound/atmosphere etc in the 360 demo. I know this will be an en... : james t kirk
  • man = many : james t kirk
  • I just saw the game myself. I was really suprise at the crispness of the textures. Funny, though, Fallo... : mobab
• well ok, if you say so. you've made me a believer, sir : dantastic

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  WHQL certification does NOT reflect the quality and/or amount of bugs in video drivers in any way. The "b... : High-g
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    I know, but most of the time it's a "we looked at it and didn't find anything stupid" opinion. There are... : the archvile
    • You can always easily uninstall them and re-install the previous versions, Nvidia's uninstaller always wo... : High-g
• If something doesn't work with non-WHQL drivers, you can always reinstall the older WHQL certified driver... : Autocrawler
• ghahaahah : Pink0r
• I haven't had any problems with downloading the newest drivers on release. Maybe because my last 3 cards... : dantastic

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  source? proof? : tree8
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    http://www.fileplanet.com/179991/170000/fileinfo/ Originally determined in this thread on SA. http://... : rastafar1an
    • Thank you. : tree8

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• "mo is nearly 2 gigs.." : pillzer
• clear the cookie for it. : thebigbeefsandwich
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  The official requirements are 8GB of free space. Pretty hefty but not too bad. : skankcore
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    thnkas. I can't even find them on the site.. : pillzer
    • "thanks" even. I need to go to bed. : pillzer
• also, clear your cookies to fix that problem. : dahanese